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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#bind #often #ourselves #rather #than

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #bribery #deception #exhausted #few

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#conviction #ethics #personal #science #truth

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#free #free lunch #lunch #must #truth

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#brutally #enjoys #honest #honesty #more

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment